Historical Interest

Pettygrove Park

This park in downtown Portland is named after Francis W. Pettygrove -- one of the early owners and developers of the Portland townsite. He was the winner of the historic coin toss with Asa Lovejoy which determined the name of the city that they founded. Pettygrove, from Portland, Maine, was the owner of Portland's first house, wharf, warehouse, and store.

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SW 1st to 4th Ave - Market to Harrison St Portland, OR 97210

Oaks Pioneer Church & Park

Oaks Pioneer Church, originally St. John's Episcopal Church, was built in 1851 on the outskirts of the pioneer town of Milwaukie. Thanks to the efforts of civic leaders the old church has been preserved. In 1961 the church was shipped by barge to the ferry slip on the end of Spokane Street, placed in its current location at the edge of Sellwood Park, and renamed Oaks Pioneer Church. It was restored by the Sellwood-Moreland Improvement League and is now listed as a Portland Historical Landmark and is included in the National Register of Historic Places.

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455 SE Spokane St Portland, OR 97202

Mt. Hood National Forest

Located twenty miles east of the city of Portland, Oregon, and the northern Willamette River valley, the Mt. Hood National Forest extends south from the strikingly beautiful Columbia River Gorge across more than sixty miles of forested mountains, lakes and streams to Olallie Scenic Area, a high lake basin under the slopes of Mt. Jefferson. Visitors enjoy fishing, camping, boating and hiking in the summer, hunting in the fall, and skiing and other snow sports in the winter.

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